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soft, compressible stems are 8-17 inches high, and Soe as 
ar as I have seen, leafiess; and when Fl. Ross. 1. c.) 
says that they oceasionally bear leaves, he ee pr jabiy. one 
of the allied leaf-bearing species before him, which are, at first 
glance, so much like our plant that they have been almost 
constantly confounded seit it. The spathe is 3-13 inches 
long and usually exceeds the flowers; in the variety it meas- 
ures only 2 or 3 lines and is shorter than the flowers, of which 
the primary one is sessile and the accessory one peduncled, 
just as we see it in J. biglumis. Flowers 3 lines or more 
long; sepals green on the back, Lani on the sides, pale and 
embranaceous on th ; r ones with 5-7 nerves 5 
) 
stamens less than one-half, often ois one-third as long as the 
sepals; capsule deep chestnut-brown and shining; seeds 0.3 
Fy iy oe with or 12 oe visible (on one side), and 
distinctly cross-lined; it is one of the very few species in 
which we find the appendages as long as, or longer than, the 
seed itself, 
14. J LIT, n. Sp.: czespitosus; caulibus (spithameis pe- 
dalibus) goo filiformibus folia teretia setacea longe 
superantibus; spatha paniculam subsimplicem paucifloram 
coarctatam vix seu parum superante; sepalis lanceolatis 
oblongo-linearibus striato-reticulatis longe caudatis.—J. are- 
ticus, var. gracilis? Gray in Pl. Hall & Harb. 1. c. p. 77, ex 
parte. 
Near Lake Ranch, Colorado, Hall & cabal or 
Mountain cag No. 562; for the former 
Hall, of Athens, Menard county, Iil., who fF adlisine ‘this fo 
sna 
vaginal part, terete upwards; spathe as long as, or a little 
longer than, the compact inflorescence, which consists of 2-5 
flowers about 2 lines long; capsule deep brown, as long as, 
or longer than, the acute but not subulate-pointed, soci 
brown, gees argined sepals; seeds 0.5-0.6 line sont the 
ges 
side of the seed about 10 eatin ribs, 
; 15. J. -Parryt, n. sp.: csespitosus; caulibus setaceis humilibus 
(digit pitha ) folia suleata s teretia superanti- 
